Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Defense Mechanisms: Current Approaches to Research and Measurement
Chapter 2: A Critical Perspective on Defense Mechanisms
Chapter 3: Defense Mechanisms in the Clinic, the Laboratory, and the Social World: Toward Closing the Gaps
Chapter 4: What is a Mechanism of Defense?
Chapter 5: Percept-Genesis and the Study of Defensive Processes
Percept-Genetic, Projective, and Rating Techniques for the Assessment of Defense Mechanisms
Chapter 6: Defense Mechanisms and Cognitive Styles in Projective Techniques and Other Diagnostic Instruments
Chapter 7: Percept-Genetic Identification of Defense
Chapter 8: Contributions to the Construct Validity of the Defense Mechanism Test
Chapter 9: Studying Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales
Chapter 10: The Motivational and Cognitive Determinants of Defense Mechanisms
Chapter 11: Repressive Coping Style and the Significance of Verbal-Autonomic Response Dissociations
Chapter 12: Perceptual and Emotional Aspects of Psychophysiological Individuality
Chapter 13: A Psychodynamic Activation Study of Female Oedipal Fantasies Using Subliminal and Percept-Genetic Techniques
Chapter 14: Adaptation to Boredom and Stress: The Effects of Defense Mechanisms and Concept Formation on Attentional Performance in Situations with Inadequate Stimulation
Chapter 15: Stress, Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity, and Defense Mechanisms
Defence mechanisms inpsychotherapy and clinical research
Chapter 16: Clinical Evaluation of Structure and Process of Defense Mechanisms Before and During Psychoanalytic Treatment
Chapter 17: The Measurement of Ego Defenses in Clinical Research
Chapter 18: Patterns of Adaptation and Percept-Genetic Defenses
Chapter 19: Intellectual Performance and Defense Mechanisms in Depression
Chapter 20: Defense Mechanisms and Hope as Protective Factors in Physical and Mental Disorders
Chapter 21: Defense Mechanisms and Physical Health
Chapter 22: Patients Confronted With a Life-Threatening Situation: The Importance of Defense Mechanisms in Patients Facing Bone Marrow Transplantation. An Empirical Approach
Defense mechanisms inPsychomatic Research
Chapter 23: Defense Mechanisms, Life Style, and Hypertension
Chapter 24: In Defense of Obesity
Chapter 25: An Experimental Study of Severe Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa)
Chapter 26: Defense Organizations and Coping in the Course of Chronic Disease: A Study on Crohn’s Disease
Defense mechanisms in neuropsychological contexts
Chapter 27: Defense Mechanisms and Their Psychophysiological Correlates
Index
Contributors
